Motorola Trials 3G Femtocell in EMEA

Motorola announced today that it has completed end-to-end testing of its 3G femtocell solution and it also begun trialing the solution with an important European mobile operator who's name was not yet disclosed.

"Motorola is pioneering the development of femtocell solutions that play a key role in realizing our vision of Seamless Mobility," says Joe Cozzolino, corporate vice president and general manager Motorola Home & Networks Mobility EMEA. "Leveraging expertise from across the Motorola organization, we offer a fully integrated and tested end-to-end solution, based on open standard interfaces, which includes a range of femtocell customer premises equipment (CPE) and 3G devices, a core network concentrator, systems integration services and a CPE management solution - the Motorola Netopia® Broadband Server (NBBS)."

Femtocells allows mobile operators to offer higher-performance and higher-quality wireless voice and real-time data services to consumers inside their homes. Also, femtocells's advantage is that they enable a considerable lower cost than the macrocell network when it comes to wireless traffic delivery. Femtocells's benefits for consumers include reduced "in-home" call charges, improved communication experience as they roam from inside to outside their homes, consolidated billing and better indoor coverage, all from their existing 3G mobile phones.

"In Europe, 30 to 40 percent of the cellular traffic is generated from inside the home," said Vincent Poulbere, principal analyst, Ovum. "Femtocells provide a more efficient way for operators to manage traffic generated indoors, compared to the outdoor macrocells of the public cellular infrastructure. In Western Europe, we forecast that 12 million femtocells will be deployed in 2010 rising to 17 million in 2011."

Member of the Femto Forum, the independent industry association which supports femtocell deployment all over the globe, Motorola leverages its top position in UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) deployments and its rich experience in providing convergence solutions to important operators worldwide.